Can you laugh at yourself?

[BashfulAnthony]

Anyway, as if a dolt like you could ever refrain from swearing for very long.

It turned out that I could refrain from swearing for longer than you could refrain from throwing insults. 

It is part of your sad way of "debating,"  along with your usual denigration of the intelligence of others  -  an "attribute" that is too little commented on.

It is true that I recently denigrated your intelligence.  However, somebody who accuses me of denigrating their intelligence in the same post as calling me a dolt probably doesn't have a lot of intelligence to denigrate.

Ta ta

[floo]

I have just discovered this 'joke' on another forum on which I post. The real joke is the **** word. As the poster concerned denigrates swearing in others!

An atheist was seated next to a little girl on an airplane and he turned To her and said, "Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike Up a conversation with your fellow passenger."
 The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total Stranger, "What would you want to talk about?"
 "Oh, I don't know," said the atheist. "How about why there is no God, Or no Heaven or Hell, or no life after death?" as he smiled smugly.
 "Okay," she said. "Those could be interesting topics but let me ask You a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same Stuff - grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns Out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?"
 The atheist, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, Thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea." To which The little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss God, Heaven and Hell, or life after death, when you don't know ****?"

[SweetPea]

I have just discovered this 'joke' on another forum on which I post. The real joke is the **** word. As the poster concerned denigrates swearing in others!

An atheist was seated next to a little girl on an airplane and he turned To her and said, "Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike Up a conversation with your fellow passenger."
 The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total Stranger, "What would you want to talk about?"
 "Oh, I don't know," said the atheist. "How about why there is no God, Or no Heaven or Hell, or no life after death?" as he smiled smugly.
 "Okay," she said. "Those could be interesting topics but let me ask You a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same Stuff - grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns Out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?"
 The atheist, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, Thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea." To which The little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss God, Heaven and Hell, or life after death, when you don't know ****?"

Floo, was that from an American forum? Just wondering, because an American friend of mine sent me the same joke about 12 months ago, and then I reposted it here, maybe 9 months ago, when we had the 'Joke' thread. I'm just observing how stuff gets round the internet and can arrive back in the same place, over time. I remember Leonard being in stitches, haha.

[floo]

I have just discovered this 'joke' on another forum on which I post. The real joke is the **** word. As the poster concerned denigrates swearing in others!

An atheist was seated next to a little girl on an airplane and he turned To her and said, "Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike Up a conversation with your fellow passenger."
 The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total Stranger, "What would you want to talk about?"
 "Oh, I don't know," said the atheist. "How about why there is no God, Or no Heaven or Hell, or no life after death?" as he smiled smugly.
 "Okay," she said. "Those could be interesting topics but let me ask You a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same Stuff - grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns Out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?"
 The atheist, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, Thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea." To which The little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss God, Heaven and Hell, or life after death, when you don't know ****?"

Floo, was that from an American forum? Just wondering, because an American friend of mine sent me the same joke about 12 months ago, and then I reposted it here, maybe 9 months ago, when we had the 'Joke' thread. I'm just observing how stuff gets round the internet and can arrive back in the same place, over time. I remember Leonard being in stitches, haha.

My only reason for posting it, was because I was gobsmacked that the poster who is a member here too, is always telling others off for using swear words, so I thought it hypocritical!

[trippymonkey]

Isn't the word SH++ a slang word rather than a swear word of which many are far worse & FAR more evocative ??

[Harrowby Hall]

Isn't the word SH++ a slang word rather than a swear word of which many are far worse & FAR more evocative ??

Indeed. It is a reminder of essential physiological processes which are somewhat distasteful and shameful. We therefore remove all reference to them in our interactions with other people. In the USA, where that joke came from, the word has had two interesting semantic consequences:

1    Removal of all references to the process in in everyday life with euphemisms such as "bath room" and "rest room" being invented. In Europe we too have a euphemism - "WC".

2    The adoption, by freewheeling, young, unconstrained individuals of the word "shit" as a kind of portmanteau, general word meaning just about anything or everything they couldn't be bothered to recall the real name of.

Our distain of talking about faeces - using any appropriate word - probably results in the unnecessary early deaths of thousands of people who ignore the early signs of colorectal cancer.

Laughing at ourselves is not the only reflective activity we should practise.

[Udayana]

Oh shit, yes, I've just received one of those kits.

Anyway, it was part of the joke, so can be used, even if one one generally objects to "swear" words or slang.

[Nearly Sane]

Oh shit, yes, I've just received one of those kits.

Anyway, it was part of the joke, so can be used, even if one one generally objects to "swear" words or slang.

Happy birthday, I take it then?

[Udayana]

Yes, last month. I was thinking of binning it

[Nearly Sane]

You should use it, only sensible

[floo]

I am bumping this thread of mine up because there are some who should do themselves a BIG favour, and might even be nicer people if they had a good belly laugh at their antics. Folk who can laugh at themselves can't be all bad, imo.

[Hope]

My only reason for posting it, was because I was gobsmacked that the poster who is a member here too, is always telling others off for using swear words, so I thought it hypocritical!

I think its rather hypocritical of someone to accuse someone of using a swear word, when it is no more than vulgar slang.

[floo]

My only reason for posting it, was because I was gobsmacked that the poster who is a member here too, is always telling others off for using swear words, so I thought it hypocritical!

I think its rather hypocritical of someone to accuse someone of using a swear word, when it is no more than vulgar slang.

Only hypocritical if one is using swear words oneself, which I hope I have never done on a forum!

[OH MY WORLD!]

Dearest Matty,
About your reply #89 (snork) The word you want is THE not TYE.